Apparently the words the alleged shooter spoke before opening fire last night at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston mean less than nothing to Fox News, at least if the panelists on its “Fox and Friends” show are any guide. According to a survivor he said “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.”

Somehow I don’t think he thought that Christians were perpetrating crimes of that nature against his fellow whites, but then I’m not employed by Fox.

“Most people jump to conclusions about race [said pastor E.W. Jackson, who not so coincidentally is both black and a losing Republican candidate for Va. Lieutenant Governor a while back]. I long for the day when we stop doing that in our country. But we don’t know why he went into a church, but he didn’t choose a bar, he didn’t choose a basketball court, he chose a church, and we need to be looking at that very closely.”

As Wonkette says, if he’d wanted to shoot black people he’d have gone to a basketball court, but he went to a church so he must have wanted to shoot Christians.

How the hell do you make your mind work that way?

Tangentially, I wonder if Fox has ever employed a Jew, an atheist, or a Buddhist? Employing a Muslim would be right out, of course.